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Sata C Drive install changes to F?

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Brown11

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Hi all

I just got a new PC. Core2Duo, Gigabyte 965P-S3 Mobo and sata2 harddrive

I firstly partitioned the HD to a C,E and F drive (D was the DVD rom)

I installed XPSP2 to C with no problems. I then plugged in and external IDE HD which had updated mobo drivers which i installed then rebooted.

The machine didnt reboot with either a cant find boot.ini or NTLDR error

Upon checking recovery console the C: drive had 4 files (including boot.ini and NTLDR) and the XP install was on F: drive!!!

After mucking around a bit with bootcfg etc I could get the thing to boot to F, and opening console in XP it has F as active (as expected I suppose)

This happened twice! I totally formatted all drives to start again and then the same thing happened

My question is how would I fix it???

Thanks in advance
 
Edit: See below. Looks like it doesn't work...sorry! 🙁

I'm not sure if it works or not (haven't tried it), but you could right click on "My Computer", select "manage" and then "Disk Management". I think you can right click on your "F" drive and then change drive letters/paths. I'm taking a stab at this from previous posts but I could be wrong! 😱
 
Originally posted by: Engineer
I'm not sure if it works or not (haven't tried it), but you could right click on "My Computer", select "manage" and then "Disk Management". I think you can right click on your "F" drive and then change drive letters/paths. I'm taking a stab at this from previous posts but I could be wrong! 😱
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I agree with Engineer. You should be able to change the drive letters under disk management. Give that a shot. That should work for ya
 
No, you cannot change the drive letter for the boot or the system partitions that way.

Next time, make sure to create an image before you install the other drive. That way, you can always go back to the working setup and try again.
 
Correct you can't change boot partition drive letter..

is just the way things are designed

your best bet is unhook all the other drives for your install and after install, plug them in..
 
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